In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

Month: September 2016

For all those around the University of Denver, please come tomorrow at 4: 30 both to learn and to show your support. It is unbearable to have a society which murders a man for sitting in his car waiting for his child…Let us do everything in our power to establish at minimum training …

A man sits in his car waiting to pick up his son. Every day, a man sits in his car, waiting to pick up most of us do this, waiting for a son, a daughter, a granddaughter some days, he picks up his neighbor’s son, too. She tells the …

Who.What.Why. EARTH SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 |ALAN GILBERT GRAVE MATTERS IN PIPELINE CONTROVERSY Dakota Access Pipeline prayer walk led by Dennis Banks. Photo credit: With permission from Paula Bard Alan Gilbert is a Distinguished Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver and Paula Bard is a fine-art photographer. They travelled to the Sacred Stone encampment in …

You can hear my talk about Standing Rock this morning at 8 on KGNU followed by another account by an indigenous activist of the heroism of the nonviolent protest Saturday and the depraved Bull Connor/George Wallace-like police dog violence against it. Go to http://www.kgnu.org/shows.phpand then Wednesday, Morning Magazine 8 o’clock. **** Events Home / Standing In …

I and my wife were at Standing Rock sacred land, sacred water encampment in North Dakota and were in the mass, nonviolent defense action Saturday against the DAP (Enbridge Corporation of Canada – former builder of Keystone). Maeve Conren will talk with me about it on Morning Edition on KGNU 88.5 fm, 1390 …

I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).